Word: focusing
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...like you to come,’” he said.Along with his family, Reitan attended a Washington, D.C. demonstration for gay rights. Karslake’s cameras went along for the protest, which featured the Reitans reading an open letter to Jim Dobson, founder of evangelical group Focus on the Family. True to form, the family got arrested while trying to deliver the letter to Dobson.Reitan saw the movie together with Gomes, who is also his thesis advisor. Gomes did not remember filming the scenes Karslake used in the film. “I get many request...
...people we want to be. This statement is indeed slightly extreme, and may put off some readers initially, but Solove backs his point by highlighting several case studies, including the Star Wars Kid, that illustrate the dangers of one of the modern age’s greatest tools. That focus on specific cases is far and away the book’s greatest strength. Rather than simply warning readers about possible scenarios, Solove shows first-hand the lives that have been ruined, combining descriptions of the original events with verbatim reproductions of comments posted by various bloggers throughout...
...more e-therapists. Nor does it mean that children from these marriages face a greater risk of Internet addiction or that they will be easier prey for online predators. While Penn’s research is extensive and thorough, “Microtrends” is trivialized by this focus on numbers. In a society already far too defined by quantities—scores and grades, income, and even age being only a few examples of how individuals are judged on the basis of nothing more than a counting system—Penn’s book serves to magnify...
...different but we are the same,” Knell said. Knell showed a clip from the South African version of Sesame Street featuring a muppet named Kami, who is a five-year-old AIDS orphan. In the United States, the next season will focus on environmental messages, he said. One of the main goals of Sesame Street is to promote basic learning at a time when most fourth-graders can’t read at grade level. A new initiative is a podcast called “Word on the Street,” which was created to help...
With early admissions eliminated this year, Harvard has extended its recruiting trips through November and into December to focus on rural and urban areas. In previous years, recruiting trips generally wrapped...